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Literary wonderlands
a journey through the greatest fictional worlds ever created
by Laura Miller
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From the epic of Gilgamesh, almost two thousand years BCE, to the modern fantasies of Stephen King's Dark Tower series and J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter, authors have created fictional realms that have captivated audiences. Miller has guided a team of writers to unlock the mysteries and meanings of nearly 100 fantastical lands. The essays explore the contemporary events and circumstances that influenced each work, and examine how elements of the author's life were relevant to the creation of the story.
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Literary wonderlands: a journey through the greatest fictional worlds ever created
2016, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Anonymous: The epic of Gilgamesh, c.1750 BCE
Homer: The odyssey, c.725-675BCE
Ovid: Metamorphoses, c.8
Anonymous: Beowulf, c.700-1100
Anonymous: The thousand and one nights, c.700-947
Anonymous: The mabinogion, 12th-14th century
Snorri Sturluson: The prose Edda, c.1220
Dante Alighieri: The divine comedy, c.1308-21
Thomas Malory: Le morte d'Arthur, 1485
Ludovico Ariosto: Orlando Furioso, c.1516/32
Thomas More: Utopia, 1516
Edmund Spenser: The faerie queene, 1590-1609
Wu Cheng'en: Journey to the west (Xiyouji), c.1592
Tommaso Campanella: The city of the sun, 1602
Miguel de Cervantes: Don Quixote, 1605/15
William Shakespeare: The tempest, 1611
Cyrano de Bergerac: A voyage to the moon, 1657
Margaret Cavendish: The description of a new world, called the Blazing-World, 1666
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's travels
Ludvig Holberg: The journey of Niels Klim to the world underground, 1741
Charles Kingsley: The water-babies: A fairy tale for a land baby, 1863
Lewis Carroll: Alice's adventures in Wonderland, 1865
Jules Verne: Twenty thousand leagues under the sea, 1870
Samuel Butler: Erewhon, 1872
Richard Wagner: The ring of the Nibelung, 1876
Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure island, 1883
Edwin A. Abbott: Flatland: A romance of many dimensions, 1884
Edward Bellamy: Looking backward: 2000-1887, 1888
Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889
H.G. Wells: The time machine, 1895
L. Frank Baum: The wonderful wizard of Oz, 1900
J.M. Barrie: Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, 1906
Arthur Conan Doyle: The lost world, 1912
Edgar Rice Burroughs: At the earth's core, 1914
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Herland, 1915
Cecilia May Gibbs: Tales of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie: Their adventures wonderful, 1918
Yevgeny Zamyatin: We, 1924
Frank Kafka: The castle, 1926
H.P. Lovecraft: The Cthulhu mythos, 1928-37
Aldous Huxley: Brave new world, 1932
Robert E. Howard: Conan the Barbarian, 1932-36
Vlladimir Bartol: Alamut, 1938
Jorge Luis Borges: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, 1941
Austin Tappan Wright: Islandia, 1942
Antoine de Saint-Exuéry: The little prince, 1943
Tove Jansson: The Moomins and the great flood, 1945
Mervyn Peake: Gormenghast, 1946-59
George Orwell: Nineteen eighty-four, 1949
C.S. Lewis: The chronicles of Narnia, 1950-56
Isaac Asimov: I, Robot, 1950
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451, 1953
J.R.R. Tolkien: The lord of the rings, 1954-55
Juan Rulfo: Pedro Páramo, 1955
Stanisław Lem: Solaris, 1961
Anthony Burgess: A clockwork orange, 1962
Vladimir Nabokov: Pale fire, 1962
Pierre Boulle: Planet of the apes, 1963
Gabriel García Márquez: One hundred years of solitude, 1967
Ursula K. Le Guin: A wizard of Earthsea, 1968
Philip K. Dick: Do androids dream of electric sheep?, 1968
Peter S. Beagle: The last unicorn, 1968
Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-five, 1969
Larry Niven: Ringworld, 1970
Italo Calvino: Invisible cities, 1972
William Goldman: The princess bride, 1973
Samuel R. Delany: Dhalgraen, 1975
Georges Perec: W or the memory of childhood, 1975
Gerd Mjøen Brantenberg: Egalia's daughters: A satire of the sexes, 1977
Angela Carter: The bloody chamber and other stories, 1979
Octavia E. Butler: Kindred, 1979
Douglas Adams: The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, 1979
Stephen King: The dark tower series, 1982-2012
Terry Pratchett: The Discworld series, 1983-2015
William Gibson: Neuromancer, 1984
Margaret Atwood: The handmaid's tale, 1985
Iain M. Banks: The culture series, 1987-2012
Bernardo Atxaga: Obabakoak, 1988
Neil Gaiman et al.: The sandman, 1988-2015
Neal Stephenson: Snow crash, 1992
Lois Lowry: The giver, 1993
Philip Pullman: His dark materials, 1995-2000
George R.R. Martin: A game of thrones, 1996
David Foster Wallace: Infinite jest, 1996
J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone, 1997
China Miéville: The Bas-lag cycle, 2000-04
Jasper Fforde: The Eyre affair, 2001
Cornelia Funke: Inkheart, 2003
Susanna Clarke: Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, 2004
David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas, 2004
Kazuo Ishiguro: Never let me go, 2005
Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o: Wizard of the Crow, 2006
Michael Chabon: The Yiddish Policemen's Union, 2007
Suzanne Collins: The hunger games, 2008
Haruki Murakami: IQ84, 2009-10
Wu Ming-Yi: The man with the compound eyes, 2011
Ann Leckie: The imperial Radch trilogy, 2013-15
Nnedi Okorafor: Lagoon, 2014
Salman Rushdie: Two years eight months and twenty-eight nights, 2015.
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